Yamasaki Mami: Imaginary City

Yamasaki Mami envisions landscapes where reality and imagination intersect, inspired by urban nightscapes and architecture. While appearing real from a distance, closer inspection reveals forms composed of nothing more than paint itself. In this exhibition, Yamasaki overlays memories and imagination onto actual urban settings to create imaginary cities. Here - where past and future, reality and fiction converge - she presents the hope and potential to be found in worlds yet unseen. We invite you to explore these "alternative cities" - a place that exists only in the artist’s vision.

Yamasaki Mami

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1987, and graduate from the Department of Painting (Oil Painting major) at Tama Art University, she is currently based in both Kyoto and Tokyo, where she creates paintings that reconstruct light as a metaphor for hope and memory. Drawing inspiration from sources such as AI-generated urban nightscapes, Yamasaki employs multiple layers of color to depict landscapes where information, human dreams, and desires intersect. Notable exhibitions include a solo exhibition at W&K - Palais Schönborn-Batthyány (Vienna, 2026), Anywhere at the Takarazuka City Center for Arts and Culture (Hyogo, 2025), and a collection exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (2024).